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A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)

Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 268

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by Vitru-vius, in his account of hydraulic or-gans, without the slightest intima-tion of their being then of recentdate, they may safely be classedamong those inventions, the originof which is too remote to be dis-covered. No. 110 represents a person work-ing two of them to supply wind fora water… … No. 110. Roman Piston Bellows. Chap. 2.] Piston Bellows of Mindanao. 245 The blower, by alternately raising one piston and depressing the other,•pumped air into a large reservoir: this was an open vessel invertedinto another containing water, and as the air accumulated in the former,the liquid was…

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